montalbano

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by montalbano 29d ago
How would it overlap or differ from 'Statistical Rethinking'? This is widely regarded as the most accessible intro textbook to Bayesian statistics. https://xcelab.net/rm/
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DumpsterCluster: From Dumpster Diving to Serving Llama-70B on $60 GPUs(arxiv.org)
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by montalbano 2mo ago
The correct title was within the HN title length limit.
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by montalbano 2mo ago
> I guess the headline has been changed? No. Check internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20260808055323/https://www.thegu... The HN poster got the title wrong.
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Smoke, fire, floods: US faces triple extreme summer weather threats(reuters.com)
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Ocean surface temperatures hit a record high for June(theguardian.com)
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'Kind of miracle solution': How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con(theguardian.com)
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Europe swelters under heatwave, France restricts alcohol consumption(reuters.com)
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The household battery revolution that could change energy bills and the world(theguardian.com)
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From Island to Ice(reuters.com)
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by montalbano 8mo ago
Recent research suggests the issue is much less concerning than previously estimated. https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/news/illusion-truth-surrounds-inacc...
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by montalbano 8mo ago
Recent research suggests the issues are much less concerning than previously estimated. https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/news/illusion-truth-surrounds-inacc...
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by montalbano 8mo ago
>> Nobody studies this Tire dust has been studied for decades and the most recent research I've seen suggests the issues are less concerning than previously estimated. https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/news/illusion-t
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Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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Formally verifying a floating-point division routine with Gappa – part 1(community.arm.com)
33 points by montalbano 1y ago|4 comments
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The Doctor Fighting Medicine's Addiction to Plastic Waste(bloomberg.com)
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Wasted Wind(wastedwind.energy)
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by montalbano 2y ago
https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/news/%E2%80%98illusion-truth%E2%80%...
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'Illusion of truth' surrounds inaccurate tyre pollution figures(ch.cam.ac.uk)
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Airborne Tire Wear Particles: Emission Factors Are Lower Than Expected(pubs.acs.org)
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by montalbano 2y ago
That's a valid broader definition but in practice I find it too broad to be very useful.
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by montalbano 2y ago
My definition: A person who writes software that is closely bound to the operating system interface and/or hardware for reasons of performance and/or functionality.
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Is climate change lighting a fuse under Iceland's volcanoes?(reuters.com)
3 points by montalbano 2y ago|1 comments
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Energy from data centres could heat UK swimming pools after green investment(theguardian.com)
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King Arthur unveils flour from regeneratively grown wheat (2023)(foodbusinessnews.net)
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I hate bubblesort(chiark.greenend.org.uk)
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by montalbano 3y ago
Penrose looks pretty good: https://github.com/penrose/penrose https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23430282
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by montalbano 3y ago
I was surprised the blog post did not mention Modes of Persuasion , which were codified in 4th century BCE by Aristotle. Ethos: appeal to authority Pathos: appeal to emotion Logos: appeal to logic I found the post's added description
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by montalbano 3y ago
No it's like saying biannual can mean twice a year or once every two years. Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. Language evolves.
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by montalbano 3y ago
It can be used either way, e.g. the word "century" means 100 years. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centi- Update: looked into this more and the "centi" part of the SI system comes from t

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